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168 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING VOL. IV.
T^TivT^iXvTT T o " a tussle with the new carrier at Townshende Milne."
KINGS MILLS, , , . , .
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LIVERPOOL. The old custom of people carrying their own corn
16. Townsend and flour to and from the mill was fast dying out both
Windmill. Qj^ ^\^Q continent and in Eng^land, and millers were
Carriers intro- .... ^ • t t •
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duced, 1635. generally givmg free carriage. In Liverpool, Crosse,
at Middle Mill, seems to have been the first to make
Text, III. 134. the innovation ; and Moore, at Townsend, was compelled
to follow suit, as stated in the Rental :—
Rental, xii. 68. [We are now] forced to keep a carrier, the which is a man and
a horse more than ordinary. In former times there was never any
carrier, and then it was as good a windmill as most in the county ;
but since Mr. Crosse set his windmill to tenants, they, to get custom,
set up the device of a carrier, and we to keep custom were forced to
have one too. So that if ever you could buy Mr. Crosse's mill you
need keep no carrier, for this reason you must know, they must then
either grind with you or be without. . . . You are at the charges
of at least ;£"i2 per annum upon the maintenance of a man and a
horse for carrying.
In 1648-49 the colonel distinguished himself by
sitting as one of the judges of Charles I., and
signing the death-warrant of that monarch ; dying
himself the next year, and leaving an estate, which
had been little cared for during his life, heavily
encumbered with mortgages and debts ; and a per-
sonal reputation among his fellow-townsmen (who in
1660 promptly became Royalists) that was more than
sufficient to utterly condemn beforehand the popularity
of his son and heir, Edward.
17. Townsend 17. Sir Edward Moore (created baronet in 1675)
Windmill,
entered at the ag^e of sixteen years into a heritage
Sir E. Moore, 111 hi- ri •
1650-1678.
of trouble, that eventually, despite careful economies,
parsimonious management, and honest living — despite,
Moore Deeds,
too, appeals first to the Parliamentarian Parliament,
and then to Charles II.—
utterly overwhelmed him and
Rental, 32.
his family. Embroiled alike in debt and in ill favour
as the son of his father,"^ and in disputes with the
*^ "Men who were my enemies gave
my father, and therefore durst not give their votes for me."
it out underhand that I was the son of